Contact Margaret For anyone who is not spiritually allergic to churches, to walk into a beautiful church is to encounter understanding, to hear echoes of the soul's own experiences of epiphany. Such stimulus and concurrence need not involve anything theological. It can be a matter simply of sunlight striking through coloured glass and dappling the wall opposite, of the smell of flowers and ...

EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE Reading: Architecture, chapter four, pp. 159--169 The invention of the Christian church was one of the brilliant--perhaps the most brilliant--solutions in architectural history. This was achieved by a process of assimilating and rejecting various precedents, such as the Greek temple, the Roman public building, the private Roman house, and the synagogue. The Early ...

Portfolio: Early Christian Art & Architecture records 1 to 4 of 18 View: thumbnails text list image & label description City walls and gate. Synagogue nearby. - Judaic Anonymous Synagogue near city walls. - Judaic Anonymous S. Ambrogio. Chancel with baldacchino. - Early Christian Anonymous (2nd - 5th c) Elevations of Early Christian churches. - Early Christian Anonymous (2nd - 5th c) Plans of ...